Comment on "Thermal Lifshitz force between an atom and a conductor with a small density of carriers"
Quantum Physics
2015-05-13 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate that the generalization of the Lifshitz theory proposed by L. P. Pitaevskii arXiv:0801.0656 [Phys. Rev. Lett. v.101, 163202 (2008)] violates the Nernst heat theorem for many dielectric materials and is experimentally inconsistent.
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@article{arxiv.0810.3243,
title = {Comment on "Thermal Lifshitz force between an atom and a conductor with a small density of carriers"},
author = {B. Geyer and G. L. Klimchitskaya and U. Mohideen and V. M. Mostepanenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.3243},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
2 pages, 1 figure; minor revisions are made in accordance with the text accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett